Understand
To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
To stand under; to support.
To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
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Understand Quotations
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain
Understand Translations
understand in Afrikaans is besef, verstaan
understand in Dutch is bevatten, begrijpen, beseffen
understand in French is comprends, comprenons, comprennent, comprenez
understand in German is begreifen, begreife, verstehen, verstehen
understand in Italian is capire, comprendere
understand in Latin is agnosco, video vidi visum, conspicio, scio, teneo
understand in Portuguese is compreenda
understand in Spanish is entender, comprender, idear
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